Crown Championship Preview: Nebraska vs UCF
Nebraska Center Brexon Meh. (Photo Credit: Nebraska Athletics)
Nebraska (20–14) will play UCF Nights (20–16) for the inaugural college Basketball Crown Tournament Championship in Las Vegas today.
Here is a quick preview of the game, which will be played at T-Mobile Arena, home of Vegas Golden Nights in NHL. Tip off is set for 4:30 pm
How to see, stream, listen
Day/Time: CT at 4:30 pm on Sunday
TV: Gus Johnson with Fox, Jim Jackson and Christina Pink Call.
Stream: Fox Sports App.
Listen: Sunday’s game will be done on a call with Kent Pavelka and Jake Muhalisen on Husse Radio Network, including Clin (1400 pm) in Lincoln, KXSP (590 AM) in Omaha and KRVN (880 AM) in Lakesington. The pregame show starts an hour before the tipoff and will also be available on Huskers.com and Huskers app.
How to get Nebraska here?
At one point during the regular session, Nebraska NCAA tournament was very beautiful in the discussion. Then hit the disaster.
The Haskeers lost the last five matches of the regular session, and the loss of 83–68 at Iowa’s house officially excluded him not only from Big Dance, but from the 15-Tim Big Ten tournament.
Nebraska first accepted an invitation to play in the Crown tournament. It defeated Arizona State 86-78 on Monday and Georgetown 81-69 on Wednesday.
Both Arizona State and Georgetown were remembering several pieces of their roster when Nebraska played him, which surprised many people how Haskers, themselves were closed with a leg injury as the initial point, would handle an NCAA tournament snub in the bois state, a team that had all their players.
Nebraska proved that it does not matter who the Bois State had on Saturday or not. Huskers played well and assured to win a 79-69 win behind a season-high 12 3-pointers, from one of which from a hot-shooting Juvan Gary.
Gary has scored 20-plus points in four out of the last six matches of NU and an average of 20.8 points per game on its last six. Gary now has 976 points in Nebraska and 24 needs to be a 33rd Haskar to reach 1,000 points.
Jeet over Bois State gave Nebraska a 20 -consecutive win for the second consecutive season. This is the third time in school history when a team has posted a back-to-back on the 20-win season, and the first after 1997–98 and 1998–99 under Danny Ni.
UCF Guard Darius Johnson. (Photo by William Purnale-USA Today Sports)
How to get UCF here?
Head coach Johnny Drkins’ UCF Nights () 16-Team Big 12 finished 12th in the conference and missed the NCAA tournament for the sixth straight season.
Drkins is in his ninth season at UCF and currently a total of 167–119 with the presence of an NCAA tournament.
The UCF has a top -50 crime, with 79.5 points per game, scoring average at 49th position in the country. The knights are up and dropped down in the court. They make 17.3 free throw per game, at the 14th national level.
But when the UCF can score, this season is struggled to stop opponents. The knights allowed 80 points per game, 345th position per game.
The UCF will not be on full strength as it is remembering its best player in the 6-7, 235-pound guard Kashvan Hall. Hall, major scorers (18.8) and rebounders (7.1) hit the transfer portal and committed to Obern this season.
The knights have shown that they are still capable of winning the game without a hall, though. UCF Snow by Oregon State 76-75 in the first round before excluding Cincinnati 88-80 in a quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, the knights defeated Wilnova 104–98 in overtime.
Possible fatigue from UCF is something that can benefit in the Nebraska game.
The top player Nebraska needs to be limited on Sunday, the guard is Daryas Johnson. 6-1, 200-Pound Senior Guard is 17.1 points per game and is dangerous behind the arch. That is shooting 40.4% per game per game only six 3-point attempts.
Johnson scored 42 points and won seven assistance in winning over Wilnova and in 31 points and in five 3s with another seven assistance against Cincinnati.
7-2 in the UCF roster is a giant in the middle of the 235-Pound Freshman Center Mostfa Thiam. Senegal natives are 10.6 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2.6 block averages, which is the highest in the country.
Thiam was likely to recruit a four-star recruitment and a total number 31 rank in 2024 category.
UCF’s estimated initial lineup
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